Planning Toronto : The Planners, The Plans, Their Legacies, 1940-80 Hardback
by Richard White
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Paris is famous for romance. Chicago, the blues. Buenos Aires, the tango. And Toronto? Well, Canada’s largest urban centre is known for being a “city that works†– a remarkably livable metropolis for its size.
In this lavishly illustrated book, Richard White reveals how urban planning contributed to Toronto becoming a functional, world-class city.
Focusing on the period from 1940 to 1980, he examines how planners shaped the city and its development amid a maelstrom of local and international obstacles and influences. Based on meticulous research of Toronto’s postwar plans and supplemented by dozens of interviews, Planning Toronto provides a comprehensive and lively explanation of how Toronto’s postwar plans – city, metropolitan, and regional – came to be, who devised them, and what impact they had.
When it comes to the history of urban planning, the question may not be whether a particular plan was good or bad but whether in the end it made a difference.
As White demonstrates, in Toronto’s case planning did matter – just not always as expected.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:464 pages, 60 b&w photos, 75 maps and drawings
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:15/02/2016
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- ISBN:9780774829359
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:464 pages, 60 b&w photos, 75 maps and drawings
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:15/02/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780774829359